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...weird sitcoms are more interesting than bad, generic ones. But they're still bad. The creators of the brilliant '90s Nickelodeon children's show The Adventures of Pete and Pete have brought their cartoonish, jump-cut surrealism to The War Next Door. The clever premise has a CIA agent turned car salesman followed to the suburbs by his evil, supergenius archenemy. It turns out, though, that the same team also wrote Snow Day, and unfortunately this show veers toward their more recent work, with flat jokes and obvious dialogue. At its best it's a dumb adult show that really...
Most recently, it closed with FBI agent Mulder (David Duchovny) being abducted by a UFO while nemesis Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) died (apparently) and partner Scully (Gillian Anderson) announced she was pregnant, apparently - as far as anyone watching the show could tell - without having had sex with anybody. Millions of viewers asked the eternal question: What the...? So Carter's session with the insatiable critics was a delicate ballet of obviously unanswerable questions and cryptic answers, which alternately conveyed, in classic Carter fashion, that he was holding back the mysteries of the universe or that he basically makes...
Legally, Carnivore can't be deployed without a court order, same as a telephone wiretap. Before it goes to a federal judge, agents must come up with compelling arguments that the evidence to be collected is crucial and can't be acquired any other way. Then their warrant application must be personally reviewed and signed by the attorney general or one of her top assistants. Civil libertarians fear agents will ignore these hurdles, in practice and range freely through the Internet, but FBI officials say any agent found to deviate from the rules will be charged with a federal felony...
Remember, if worst comes to worst you can always get a secret service agent to pour liquor down young Al's throat and toss him out on the streets of the capitol. It will get you major sympathy points from both press and populace. I doubled Euan's allowance after he was fined 50 quid for being drunk in public...
Murray, a former colonel in the U.S. Army and an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), made his mark on the government during World War II before returning to Harvard to continue his work as a professor...